Public-sector AI, counted
What government does with AI, counted from the public record
Public Sphere Tech reads what agencies publish about artificial intelligence and data, counts it with scripts anyone can run again, and puts the data file next to every chart.
Newest data story
3,611 uses of AI on the federal list. 1,040 are marked deployed.[1]
Federal agencies listed 3,611 uses of AI for 2025. Only 29% are marked deployed; 1,479 are still being built or bought.[1]
The monthly brief
The federal AI count, monthly
Six to eight sourced numbers on federal AI, one PDF a month. $19 a month. First issue Monday 2 November 2026.[4]
Guides
- Generative AI in government858 of the 3,611 listed federal AI uses are generative AI; 252 are deployed.[1]
- AI in the public sectorStages, agencies, topics and rules, from the 2025 federal inventory.
- Data science in governmentThe Data Science series 1560: from none in 2021 to 1,216 employees in August 2026.[2]
More data stories
- What software saw at 24 federal agency home sites10 of 24 refused a labelled program on 3 October 2026.[3]
How the numbers are kept
Every number names its source and the date it was read. Every chart is drawn from a CSV published beside it. Pages from this site's earlier blog are not reposted. Some of its posts are being rebuilt, re-checked at their sources, as guides or dated follow-ups, and their old addresses forward to the new page; the rest were not brought back.[5] About and method.
Sources
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory, file of individually reported use cases (3,611 rows; the repository says "as of April 13, 2026"), counted by this site: 2025_individually_reported_AI_use_cases.csv. Read 28 October 2026.
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Workforce Data, employment snapshot files for September 2020 to September 2025 (version 4 each) and August 2026 (version 1), from data.opm.gov/api/v1/files/employment, counted by this site. Read 28 October 2026.
- Seven Sky Consulting, data-to-social, story 2026-10-03_federal-sites-ai-agents: the collection program, every rule and the hashes of the saved responses of 3 October 2026. Read 28 October 2026.
- Seven Sky Consulting, products page, The federal AI count, monthly. Read 28 October 2026.
- The publisher's own copy of the earlier site, made on 23 August 2026 (312 post folders, posts dated February 2024 to September 2025); not public. Read 28 October 2026.